About Dr. Hormoze Goudarzi

Dr. Hormoze Goudarzi, MD, P.A.

A force for positive change in Wilmington’s medical community for thirty-three years, Dr. Hormoze Goudarzi continues practicing medicine even though he could retire at any time. “The spirituality behind medicine, this reaching out and helping people every day – that is what keeps me at work”, he explains. “Patients are like family to me. They rely on me to take care of them. This is the most satisfying aspect of my work.”

Dr. Hormoze Goudarzi is the Senior Practicing General Surgeon in Wilmington, North Carolina. In 1962, he obtained his diploma in Natural Sciences and then completed Advanced-levels in Physics, Chemistry, and Biology at Acton Technical College in London where he completed his pre-medical college degree. Soon after, he graduated in 1972 from Guy’s Hospital School of Medicine, University of London (equivalent to U.S. medical centers such as Johns Hopkins and Duke) and stayed at the institution for his post-graduate surgical training and training of residents until his departure for the United States in 1981.

He obtained Fellowship of Royal College of Surgeons of England in 1976 and had eight post-fellowship rotations over the course of five years in pediatric surgery at the Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children; in breast and oncologic (cancer) surgery at Sir Hedley Atkin’s Unit of Guy’s Hospital’s Imperial Cancer Research; in general and colorectal Surgery at Greenwich District Hospital; and in urologic, vascular, and thoracic surgery as well as surgical intensive care at Guy’s Hospital.

In Wilmington, he was affiliated with Area Health Education Center (AHEC) and New Hanover Regional Medical Center, as well as the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as teaching senior resident and surgical instructor until 1984 when he ventured into private surgical practice. New Hanover Regional Medical Center – Area Health Education Center awarded Dr. Hormoze Goudarzi as ‘Professor of the Year’ three times over the course of his academic involvement. Since then he has been practicing general vascular surgery as well as endoscopy, colonoscopy, and laparoscopic surgery in New Hanover and Atlantic Surgicenter. He was one of the pioneers in the development of laparoscopic surgery in Wilmington, performing the first laparoscopic repair of hiatal hernia, the first laparoscopic colon resection in Wilmington, and the first laparoscopic liver resection in the eastern United States. Because of his expertise; he not only has received media attention but has also published several papers in highly regarded medical journals such as the British Medical Journal. In addition, he was the guest of the Chinese government in 1995 to promote modern surgery in various medical centers.

He was one of the pioneers in spearheading the development of Wilmington Surgcare and has been actively involved with other physicians in the hospital in the development of Atlantic Surgicenter. Currently, Dr. Hormoze Goudarzi is the President of the Wilmington Physicians LLC, is on the Board of Directors of Atlantic Surgicenter, and is Clinical Associate Professor at UNC.

Although Dr. Goudarzi still offers the full range of general surgical services, including laparoscopy, colonoscopy, endoscopy, laparoscopic and thyroid surgery, in recent years the treatment of venous insufficiency of the lower extremity (varicose veins, spider veins, stasis leg ulcers, lower extremity edema and abnormal skin changes) has become an increasingly integral portion of his practice.

He is a diplomat of the American Board of Surgery as well as a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons, and a diplomat of the American Board of Phlebology (phlebology being the specialty that treats varicose veins and related diseases). In a recent interview Dr. Hormoze Goudarzi said “ I am very proud of the capabilities that we possess in my surgical practice, including a state of the art vascular lab as well as the most up-to-date lasers and other modalities that can treat tortuous and distended varicosities, leg pain, swelling, discoloration of the lower extremities, ulcerations and abnormal pigmentation and rashes of the legs”. Because of his extensive experience in vascular general surgery and phlebology, he is capable of adopting the best possible treatment for each relevant disease.

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